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- Steven Saltzberg Communications Director SoftChalk
www.softchalk.com www.softchalkconnect.com
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- Mitchell Levy Marketing Chair, College Open Textbooks CEO and
Author, Happy About www.collegeopentextbooks.ning.com At 1,000
members!!!
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- Paul Stacey Director, BCcampus Cable Green Director of Global
Learning, Creative Commons James Glapa-Grossklag Dean, Educational
Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning College of
the Canyons
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- 1) How do OER projects and programs get started?
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- Foundation Funded OER (e.g. Hewlett, Mellon, Gates)
http://cnx.org http://openlearn.open.ac.uk http://ocw.mit.edu
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- Publicly Funded OER
http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english
http://www.jorum.ac.uk http://www.doleta.gov/taaccct/resources.cfm
http://opdf.pbworks.com
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- Partnerships Increase Access & Credentials Sharing &
Reuse Publicly Funded OER Strategic Goals Accelerate Progress for
Low-Skilled & Other Workers Improve Retention and Achievement
Rates Build Programs That Meet Industry Needs Strengthen Online and
Technology-Enabled Learning Promote sharing & reuse of learning
resources Provide reputational benefit to UK HE through promotion
of high quality learning resources worldwide
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- as a condition of the receipt of a Trade Adjustment Assistance
Community College and Career Training Grant (Grant), the Grantee
will be required to license to the public (not including the
Federal Government) all work created with the support of the grant
(Work) under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
(License).
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- Institutional Support
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- OER fits with institutional goals and mission Promote
excellence in teaching and learning. Expand open access to higher
education. Gain buy-in across the institution Faculty IT Campus
Store
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- 2) How are OER projects sustained?
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- Common Attributes of OER Free Open License (e.g., Creative
Commons) Access & use is explicitly expressed upfront not
dependent on copyright clearance, payment of fees, proprietary
owner permission Easily & quickly adapted Customization &
enhancements don't require large investments Errors, improvements,
& feature requests are openly shared & managed Development,
distribution & use is community/consortia based Sustainability
relies on sharing - resources, development, hosting & support
Users are developers
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- Annual fund 8 years running $9 million total 2003-2010
Operational funds Repository Reuse share-alike enhancements working
with intl partners NANSLO Work with Electronic Library Network
Maintaining Publicly Funded OER $2 billion for Fiscal Years (FY)
2011 2014 ($500 million annually) No permanent funding - applicants
must ensure effective innovations are sustained after the grant
period ends Creative Commons, Carnegie Mellon Open Learning
Initiative (OLI), CAST (Universal Design for Learning), and the
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
(SBCTC)
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- Maintaining Publicly Funded OER
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- Expanded OER project with public funding We gratefully
acknowledge the support of a U.S. Department of Education FIPSE
(Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education) Special Focus
grant
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- Develop Partnerships and Collaborations
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- Cable Green reframes sustainability.
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- 3) Where are these funding resources?
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- http://solr.bccampus.ca
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- http://www.jorum.ac.uk
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- TAACCT No central place yet DOL working on it
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- 4) Where are the threats to OER?
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- House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012 Labor, Health and
Human Services funding bill SEC. 124. None of the funds made
available by this Act for the Department of Labor may be used to
develop new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in
carrying out education or career job training grant programs unless
the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive
market-based analysis, that such courses, modules, learning
materials, or projects are not otherwise available for purchase or
licensing in the marketplace or under development for students who
require them to participate in such education or career job
training grant programs.
http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf
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- CC BY NC SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew_wertheimer/3677806847
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- Publicly funded resources should be open educational resources.
We should collectively advocate this be a requirement in all
publicly funded government grants in all countries. Paul, anyone
want to add
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- 5) Where does OER go from here?
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- Paul Stacey BCcampus Cable Green Creative Commons James
Glapa-Grossklag College of the Canyons Mitchell Levy College Open
Textbooks Steve Saltzberg SoftChalk
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- Paul Stacey Director BCcampus 555 Seymour Street, Suite 200
Vancouver, BC V6B 3H6 web site: http://www.bccampus.ca e-mail:
pstacey@bccampus.ca blog:
http://edtechfrontier.comhttp://edtechfrontier.com
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- James Glapa-Grossklag Dean, Educational Technology, Learning
Resources, and Distance Learning College of the Canyons Santa
Clarita, CA james.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu 661.362.3632 COC OER
Repository
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- Cable Green Director of Global Learning Creative Commons
creativecommons.org cable@creativecommons.org twitter: @cgreen
blog.oer.sbctc.edu
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- Mitchell Levy/College Open Textbooks Mitchell Levy is the
Marketing Chair, CollegeOpenTextbooks.org and CEO, Happy About, a
publishing and training company If you have questions about College
Open Textbooks or any of the content presented today, please feel
free to reach out to:
mitchell.levy@happyabout.infomitchell.levy@happyabout.info College
Open Textbooks, funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education
non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are
focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for
open textbooks.
http://collegeopentextbooks.orghttp://collegeopentextbooks.org